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Kevin Rudd’s e-Health bill paves the way for PositiveID human implantable RFID microchips

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

by citizen_smith
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From July 1st every single Australian will be branded with a unique, 1.16 digit identification number courtesy of Medicare Australia in accordance with Kevin Rudd’s new e-health revolution. The stated purpose of this act 2.“is to provide a way of ensuring that an entity that provides, or an individual who receives, healthcare is correctly matched to health information that is created when healthcare is provided.” Understandably it is a simple transition from localized medical records to an online system, that would allow your medical records to be accessed by medical facilities all across Australia.

For many this would seem to be the perfect solution to holiday accidents and prevent any unnecessary delays when facing treatment from an uncommon doctor who would require any past medical records. If a doctor in a different state previously treated you, they would need to determine if any further treatments/medications could cause adverse reactions to a prescription you or your family might currently be on. Having access to your usual doctors detailed medical reports, anywhere in the country, might just be a life saver. But is there more to it than meets the eye? There is indeed a surreptitious plan to set up the ground work for this system to progress seamlessly to implantable RFID microchips. All that would be required is a simple distribution of the PositiveID microchip and the necessary RFID scanners into the medical infrastructure – the software side would already be functioning at full steam.

3.“The Australian healthcare sector is a complex of public and private interests, hospital and

community facilities, GP’s, laboratories, health funds, professional associations, special interest groups and individual consumers”. The introduction of this system would aim to revolutionize the way medical records are accessed and updated, ensuring every time it is accessed by a medical professional, the information is up to date and accurate. 4.Privacy advocates have lambasted the proposed bill quoting medical record privacy breaches, in 2007-2008 there were 234 serious accounts of this occurring yet 160 of these resulted in an emailed warning or counseling. If the Unique patient identification number was to go ahead, Australian Privacy Foundation chair Roger Clarke said “The situation will be many hundreds of times worse, as the HI database will ultimately be accessed by more than 600,000 medical providers and organizations”.

Knowing of the obvious security flaws that are inherent with a system of this scale, why does the Rudd government choose to bulldoze it into legislation? Could this in fact be the Hegelian dialectic at work? It could very well be a future road map that would lead to the more ‘secure’ method of accessing medical records via RFID implants as scores of complaints flood the media regarding security breaches and invasions of ‘privacy’. Scott R. Silverman, chairman and CEO of PositiveID claims 5.“In addition to helping consumers protect themselves from identity theft as it pertains to credit fraud, we are also focused on combating the growing problem of medical identity theft, which affects 7 percent of identity theft victims”. How noble of Scott.

Lets move to the hardware side of things, as we already have established that Medicare is providing the 16 digit number. Why 16-digits? Introducing the PositiveID implantable RFID microchip. The microchip itself 6.contains only a 16-digit number that when scanned with a hand held reader, connects to a secure online database. The database houses the patient’s identification information and personal health record data. The Council of Australian Governments even state themselves that 7.“The identifiers are an important building block for the future introduction of a patient-controlled Individual Electronic Health Record“. Scott R. Silverman states, on behalf of PositiveID, 8.“we put consumers in charge of their own health information through a robust, patient-controlled interface.” Interesting indeed.

9.It has been established already that IBM has seed funded PositiveID since inception, would it come as any surprise to you that 10.Medicare relies on IBM for its technology infrastructure and has just paid $189 million for a one-year extension on a services contract? Of course not. This is the most disturbing element, the very people designing and maintaining the system currently in use in Australia, are also the ones behind the PositiveID RFID microchip for humans.

Currently Microsoft and Google both have an e-health record management service. Microsoft’s product is ‘MS HealthVault’, Google’s is simply ‘Google Health’. 11.Both of these services are fully interoperable with PositiveID’s RFID microchip. 12.Microsoft has already made a submission to the national health and hospitals reform commission (NHHRC) and proposed an electronic health record system for the improvement of Australia’s healthcare. 13.Google isn’t far behind in the race either, with CEO Eric Schmidt stating that he “hopes to deliver Google Health to Australia by the end of the year”.

Staying true to the science of gradualism, we are having an information cage slowly erected around us and we won’t know until it is too late to do anything about it. Maybe the implantable RFID microchips are coming sooner rather than later, we do know that they will be introduced for the purpose of cost efficiency and ‘reliability’ of patient identification, perhaps a failed e-health system could provide the perfect chaos to accommodate an implantable RFID solution. What we wont be told is that it will simply be a ‘plug in’ upgrade to our existing infrastructure, meaning a rapid deployment nation wide. To some money minded bureaucratic sell outs, this is an extremely easy system to sell to an uneducated public.

Australians have already researched the ‘benefits’ of implantable microchips in a published article titled 14.“Lend me your arms: the use and implications of humancentric RFID”. The article suggests that social and ethical concerns “plague the technology” yet goes on to imply that “Initial adoption of the invasive technology has met with some success but any real assessment of the industry is prejudiced by the commercial monopoly of the VeriChip Corporation [now known as PositiveID]”. “Security and convenience are generic wants” and “Care-related humancentric RFID devices provide unparalleled portability for medical records.” To all the disbelievers that think the human microchipping agenda is light years away, think again, this article was published in 2006.

I’m going to be keeping my eye on the Rudd governments new health plan, in particular the 15.$436 million dollars that has been proposed to deal with the rising number of diabetics – just how much of this money is going to be used for a feasibility analysis of PositiveID’s iGlucose system? 16.“The iGlucose system is a standalone, self-contained unit that will automatically query a diabetic’s data-capable glucometer for blood glucose data and send that data via encrypted SMS text messaging to an online database.“ The machine is well oiled and vigilance is needed, we are dealing with a company that has no qualms when it comes to 17.micro chipping Alzheimer patients with 18.cancer causing RFID microchips. There is going to be a huge, vulnerable market in the form of diabetic patients and with the 19.US government and now the 20.Australian government both trying to tackle the expanding financial burden that this disease places on both respective economies. You don’t have to look too far for an ‘easy’ and ‘cost effective’ solution, especially with PositiveID ready to jump at any opportunity it can to ‘help’.

NOTE: Legislation has been presented to Senators within Australia to prevent the mandatory implantation of humans, and it is sitting on their desks currently awaiting further action. Please contact your representatives and encourage them to introduce this into the senate and have it passed into law. For more information on the legislation itself there is a website found at http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/action/ that explains the process you will need to follow including a letter template and fact sheet.

References:

  1. Patients have no choice – a health number ID for us all
    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/patients-have-no-choice-a-health-number-id-for-us-all/story-e6freuy9-1225831125547
  2. Healthcare identifiers and privacy: Discussion paper on proposals for legislative support
    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/pacd-ehealth-consultation/$File/Typeset%20discussion%20paper%20-%20public%20release%20version%20070709.pdf
  3. Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010
    http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r4299_first/toc_pdf/10027b01.pdf;fileType%3Dapplication%2Fpdf
  4. Medicare data breaches increase privacy fears

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/medicare-data-breaches-increase-privacy-fears/story-e6frgakx-1225841101367

  5. PositiveID’s Latest Human Chip-Implant Scare Story: “Medical Identity Theft”

    http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10007567/positiveids-latest-human-chip-implant-scare-story-medical-identity-theft/

  6. PositiveID: HealthID

    http://www.positiveidcorp.com/health-id.html

  7. Council of Australian Governments’ Meeting
    http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2009-12-07/index.cfm?CFID=616596&CFTOKEN=68544706#ehealth
  8. PositiveID Corporation’s Identity Security Business Achieves Record Growth to 20,000 Active Subscribers
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/positiveid-corporations-identity-security-business-achieves-record-growth-to-20000-active-subscribers-2010-04-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
  9. Verichip is now called PositiveID! Roll up your sleeve for the implantable human microchip, it’s now Positive?

    http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/articles.php?article_id=33

  10. Medicare extends its long-standing contract with IBM for another year http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/medicare-extends-its-long-standing-contract-with-ibm-for-another-year/story-e6frgakx-1225850070857
  11. PositiveID Corporation’s Identity Security Business Achieves Record Growth to 20,000 Active Subscribers
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/positiveid-corporations-identity-security-business-achieves-record-growth-to-20000-active-subscribers-2010-04-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp
  12. SUBMISSION TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND HOSPITALS REFORM COMMISSION (NHHRC)

    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/111-mhv/$FILE/Submissions%20111%20-%20Microsoft%20Healthvault%20Submission.pdf

  13. Google CEO coughs up Australia Health plans
    http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Google-CEO-coughs-up-Australia-Health-plans/0,339028227,339287342,00.htm
  14. Lend me your arms: the use and implications of humancentric RFID

    http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1390&context=infopapers

  15. Rudd plan a ‘stimulus’ to diabetes care
    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/1035321/rudd-plan-a-stimulus-to-diabetes-care
  16. PositiveID Corporation Launches iGlucose Second-Stage Product Development
    http://investors.positiveidcorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=454613
  17. The Controversy Magnet: PositiveID “Chips” Alzheimer’s Patients, Quite Possibly Without Permission
    http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10007254/positiveids-ethics-lapse-in-study-of-alzheimers-patients-with-microchip-implants-will-fuel-critics-ire/
  18. Microchip Cancer Report
    http://www.rense.com/general79/micro.htm
  19. PositiveID Corporation Launches iGlucose Second-Stage Product Development
    http://investors.positiveidcorp.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=454613
  20. Rudd injects $430m into diabetic care
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/31/2861131.htm?section=justin

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Modern Day Babylon

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Coincidences stopped occuring a long time ago for me, I started realising that everything happens for a specfic reason. That said, there are some world leaders who are following ancient scripture in a sick way or there is way more to the holy book(s) than people think. Here is a piece of history regarding babylon and babel tower that you might now have know. Tell me, why is the European Parliment building a modern replica of this tower? What kind of joke is this?

 Babylon (Syriac: ܒܵܐܒܸܠ or ܒܐܒܠ‎) was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BC (the dawn of the dynasties). The town flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the First Babylonian Dynasty. It was the “holy city” of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The form Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû, meaning “Gateway of the god(s)”, translating Sumerian Ka.dingir.ra). In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל (Babel), interpreted by Book of Genesis 11:9 to mean “confusion” (of languages), from the verb balbal, “to confuse”.

Babel Tower

European Parliament

 

EU Parliment Poster

EU Parliment Poster

What the fuck is the deal with the 11 inverted pentagrams?

citizen_smith

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Some more intrusive Patents to be wary of..

Monday, January 4th, 2010

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,159,703.PN.&OS=PN/5,159,703&RS=PN/5,159,703

Silent subliminal presentation system

Abstract

A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4,858,612.PN.&OS=PN/4,858,612&RS=PN/4,858,612

Hearing device

Abstract

A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex is shown and described. A microphone is used to transform sound signals into electrical signals which are in turn analyzed and processed to provide controls for generating a plurality of microwave signals at different frequencies. The multifrequency microwaves are then applied to the brain in the region of the auditory cortex. By this method sounds are perceived by the mammal which are representative of the original sound received by the microphone.

citizen_smith

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Antichrist is a clone from the blood of Christ

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

 Very compelling arguement put forward by Dr Joye. She really digs deep into the bible and chronologically traces the history of the Adam + Eve. Ties in well with the research that analyses the family crest of the merovingian bloodline (Prince Charles). Check that out here after you watch the series. Prince William & 13th Bloodline of the Illuminati. It starts to make way to much sense to be comfortable, if you view it with an open mind, as this ties in perfectly with the Blue Beam Project + a trinity event occuring at the 2012 olympics in london.

Not only that, Immortal Technique prophetically calls it as it is in this song, ‘They probably cloned Jesus with the blood off of the Cross’.

 

 

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Illuminati in Pinky & The Brain

Monday, December 28th, 2009

As title says – basically a secret society episode of pinky and the brain starring a few notables like the queen. Pictured under the embed is what I believe to be Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger. Its pretty self explanitory.

 

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The Strawman Illusion – You are a Slave.

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

This issue has confused me for a while, I first watch Jordan Maxwells basic introduction to it on youtube. That got me thinking. From then I have seen Mark McMurtries excellent video series regarding the law and also Thomas J Andersons documentary ‘The Strawman Illusion’. Ever since 1913, most countries around the world have been operating with a private central bank issuing its currency. As the private bank lends the cash to the governments of the world, with interest, the governments have no way possible to pay them back. Ever since 1933 every major country has been BANKRUPT. That is why our $$$$ is worth nothing, it is just worthless paper/plastic. What gives our currency value, is our potential to WORK. We are slaves.

How does this happen? When a boat docks on shore to a foreign land it is berthed. Before anyone or anything can leave the vessel, the ships captain must present the people on the dock with a certificate that details everything that the vessel is carrying, so that the net worth can be valued accordingly eg. gold, foodstock, valuables. When we are born – birthed – our mothers sign a ‘birth certificate’, this is necessary and has been seperated from the traditional method of simply adding our name to a family bible because — we are worth money to the government. Its true, if you get a copy of your original birth certificate it has on it a STOCK EXCHANGE number that you can readily get valued on the market.

What this certification process does at the time is create a corporate entity of the same name that the real life soul (child) carries. For example, Winston Smith is born on a sunny day in 1919, his mother signs a birth certificate which creates the corporate entity named WINSTON SMITH. Note the all caps name. This is deception on a massive scale and its right under our noses. Think about it, every single piece of legislation you have signed carries your all caps, legal fiction. Instead of operating under common law, we have been tricked into voluntarily being suppressed by Admirality Law. UCC. We are products and we dont even realise it. This all caps fiction WINSTON SMITH is considered the strawman of Winston Smith, the natural human soul.

Our countries aren’t the countries we think they are, they are simply CORPORATIONS in every sense of the word. The FREEMAN societies that are popping up all over the internet are all about reclaiming consent of your strawman. Take ownership of your digital self and start being treated like a human again. Watch Jordan Maxwells video to understand properly what I have tried to simplify. Then watch Thomas Andersons to get into the specifics.

citizen_smith

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Emergency Shelter or Emergency Detention?

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA should martial law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general’s signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. . . The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a “mass exodus” of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons. Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation. The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive mental health facility and can hold thousands of people.

Directly from COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION M3010.14 (Operation Garden Plot.pdf)

“DOD task force operations to quell civil disturbances off military property can be initiated only by Presidential order. Cases of such initiation in the past occurred during the urban political and racial unrest in the Vietnam era when federal troops were deployed on a number of occasions. GARDEN PLOT operations may include terrorist incidents, though the FBI, not the Army, will then be the lead agent.” 

FEMA Camps all over America - Each can hold 20,000 People

Why exactly are prisons being built for “the rapid development of new programs”. Halliburton’s company site confirms that the government is engaged in a massive construction and preparation exercise to build concentration camps and prisoner processing facilities in the United States. This is particularity astonishing and disturbing considering that the U.S. already incarcerates more orders of magnitude more people than any other nation, about on-par with U.S.S.R. at the height of Stalin’s era.

The contract of the Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.” In the 1980s Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld discussed similar emergency detention powers as part of a super-secret program of planning for what was euphemistically called “Continuity of Government” (COG). These men planned for suspension of the Constitution, not just after nuclear attack, but for any “national security emergency,” which they vaguely defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988.

Over 800 concentration camps are reported throughout the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive U.S. Prisoners who disagree with the government. The concentration camps are all staffed and manned by full-time guards, however, they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) when Martial Law is implemented in the United States (at the stroke of a Presidential pen and the Attorney General’s signature on a warrant).

The camps have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the detention facilities, many have airports. Like Auschwitz, some of the camps have airtight buildings and furnaces. The majority of the camps can each house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a massive “mental health” facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.

Following the Halliburton subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) announcement on Jan. 24 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps, two weeks later, on Feb. 6, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that the Fiscal Year 2007 federal budget would allocate over $400 million to add 6,700 additional detention beds (an increase of 32 percent over 2006. What is interesting in the Homeland Security plan is that each concrete prison bed costs $60,000 per bed! Observing these concentration camps and general jail and prison facilities throughout the U.S., the Homeland Security plan is clearly buffered to build significantly more than 6,700 additional beds.

Is there preparation for 2012? Who knows.

citizen_smith

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How to Hack a Predator Drone

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

The story broke on the 20th of this month, when we found out some taliban had discovered how to kick back on their recliners, eat popcorn and sink some brews – while watching the live footage of their homelands being torn to shreds by remote controlled bombers. How did they manage it? Well according to this PDF file it didn’t seem to be much of a challenge. I guess thats what happens when you don’t incorporate arrogance into your gameplan, and effectively plan accordingly. Basically its just interupting the datastream and decoding it with some basic, cheap software. There is how to guide in the PDF.

These drones have been flying around Iraq and Afghanistan for years now, almost a decade, destroying everything that gets in their way. Each Predator air vehicle can be disassembled into six main components and loaded into a container nicknamed “the coffin.” This enables all system components and support equipment to be rapidly deployed worldwide. The largest component is the ground control station and it is designed to roll into a C-130 Hercules. The Predator primary satellite link consists of a 6.1 meter (20 ft) satellite dish and associated support equipment. The satellite link provides communications between the ground station and the aircraft when it is beyond line-of-sight and is a link to networks that disseminate secondary intelligence. The RQ-1A system needs 1,500 by 40 meters (5,000 by 125 ft) of hard surface runway with clear line-of-sight to each end from the ground control station to the air vehicles. Initially, all components needed be located on the same airfield.

Currently, the US Air Force uses a concept called “Remote-Split Operations” where the satellite datalink is located in a different location and is connected to the GCS through fiber optic cabling. This allows Predators to be launched and recovered by a small “Launch and Recovery Element” and then handed off to a “Mission Control Element” for the rest of the flight. This allows a smaller number of troops to be deployed to a forward location, and consolidates control of the different flights in one location.

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Man About to Fire Off a Monkey to Mars

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

As the title reads, the stir crazy Russians have had enough of India and America pulling out the big guns in space. India one upped NASA by discovering water on the moon, so USA did the typical American thing by discovering water harder and faster by launching a rocket into the moon. That mission effectively bombed the shit out of the lunar surface kicking up dust to be analysed. Good ol’ Yankees.

Russians have had enough of monkeys playing accordions however (is this a Russian thing? lol) and decided its time to shoot them off into space to discover the red planet face to face. They first sent the primates into orbit in 1983 aboard the last Bion flights. Personally I am OK with sending animals into space, animal cruelty doesn’t enter the picture. I would rather it a monkey than a human.

But would could they possibly achieve from sending a monkey as opposed to a robot? I am sure there is a sensor available or a robotic arm that could do anything that a living creature could do, lacking the higher intelligence of a human. The entire experiment is estimated to take 520 days to complete, round trip. The monkey would be accompanied by a robot, in what appears to be a tragically comical mix-up of 2001: A Space Oddity. Lets just hope for the monkeys sake that computers name isn’t HAL.

Just for kicks some other notable events that have taken place involving shooting animals into space aboard rockets were Laika the dog, Ham the chimpanzee and miscellaneous rats & newts. Good times for all!

Now lets stop exploring space for a year or two, fix up Earth, then continue on our merry way! The fascist leadership on the planet is blatantly obvious when you start to consider the cost of one of these experiments compared to some basic shelter and food for the homeless. But yeah just keep firing monkeys into orbit – nice.

citizen_smith

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Smart Dust – Chemtrails revisited. Hold your Breath!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Mobile Networking for Smart Dust

 What is Smart Dust?

  •  A dust mote is an autonomous node incorporating sensing, computing, communications and a power source in a mm3 volume.
  • A colletion of dust motes is dispersed troughout an environment.
  • Dust motes use wireless communication to relay information to a base station over distances of 10s to 1000s of meters.

Applications of Smart Dust

  • Civilian Surveillance

 

 Smart dust: Self-assembling, self-orienting photonic crystals of porous Si

  Micrometer-sized one-dimensional photonic crystals of porous Si that spontaneously assemble, orient, and sense their local environment are prepared. The photonic crystals are generated by electrochemically etching two discrete porous multilayered dielectric mirrors into Si, one on top of the other. The first mirror is chemically modified by hydrosilylation with dodecene before the etching of the second mirror, which is prepared with an optical reflectivity spectrum that is distinct from the first. The entire film is removed from the substrate, and the second mirror is then selectively modified by mild thermal oxidation. The films are subsequently fractured into small particles by sonication. The chemically asymmetric particles spontaneously align at an organic liquid–water interface, with the hydrophobic side oriented toward the organic phase and the hydrophilic side toward the water. Sensing is accomplished when liquid at the interface infuses into the porous mirrors, inducing predictable shifts in the optical spectra of both mirrors.

 Microscopic devices that can move toward specific targets, isolate and detect chemical or biological compounds, and report this information to the macroscopic world could be useful for a variety of environmental monitoring, medical diagnostic, or therapeutic applications. Many of the components needed for such devices are too small or complex to be fabricated by using conventional lithographic tools, and the development of new techniques that can manipulate matter at the nanoscale is currently of great interest. So-called self-assembly reactions provide a convenient means of constructing one-, two-, and three-dimensional objects in this size regime.

 

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